Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centres (MSAC) houses training, competition and recovery facilities for elite athletes and the Melbourne community. The ‘Champions Room’ is used for functions and had a serious problem with high noise levels.  With a floor-to-ceiling glass exterior window wall looking out over Albert Park and the city, the root cause of the problem was severe reverberation – sound reflected off the hard glass surfaces. Sontext worked through several design options and prototypes with the customer to treat the opposite wall and ceiling with acoustic panels. The design criteria included absorption of the reflected sound and the introduction of a dynamic, colourful design into the space. The finished installation successfully minimised the high noise levels in the space to the client’s satisfaction.

Fabric-faced SerenityLite Panels were chosen, and Sontext manufactured these in a bold, integrated angular pattern to cover the complete wall surface, as shown in the picture. The Fabric finish was from one of the Sontext standard ranges of fabrics.

For the ceiling SerenityLite 1200×600 x25mm panels were chosen in an unobtrusive neutral fabric finish.

The client, William Pettigrove, Building Services Manager for MSAC, commented: “Just wanted to say Thankyou for your help with the Champions room, the panels are looking great and we will send through some photos once finished! I would like to look at other spaces too so that I will be in touch. Thank you again”